Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:19:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silas Cardoso2.pdf: 1303036 bytes, checksum: 6bfbab99f1aee463f9c257e694559274 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The research aims the Torah as an aniconic cultic object in the postexilic, revealing its ritualistic face in the Ancient Israel worship. It is proposed that the centralization of Torah in the Second Temple Period will be an ideological and macrostructural construction i.e., an invented tradition of the post-exilic priesthood that aims to unify the nation that rebuild itself. For that analysis, three cuts related to the question are persecuted: (1) the cult materiality in its continuities and ruptures with the pre-exilic Israelite religion, from the material culture and biblical analysis of four central cultic objects presented in the Deuteronomistic History, bamah, massebah, Asherah and Ark; (2) the redactional practices that defend the Torah centralization that inspires in the other cults of Ancient Israel, especially observed in the exegetical analysis of Ps 19, one of the major Torah Psalms of the Hebrew salter; (3) the canonical texts editing that was legitimator retroprojected visions of the posterior and centralized vision of Torah, from the creation of a text materiality typology, from the exegetical analysis of the texts. With that environment we propose a model of four instances of construction of post-exilic aniconism, centralized on Torah and reaching the different layers from judahite religion. / A pesquisa trabalha a Torá como objeto de culto anicônico no pósexílio, apresentando sua face ritualística no culto do Israel Antigo. É proposto que a centralização da Torá no período do Segundo Templo seria uma construção ideológica macroestrutural i.e., uma tradição inventada do grupo sacerdotal pós-exílico em vista de unificar a nação que se reconstruía e reconfigurava. Para tal análise, observam- se três recortes distintos ligados à questão: (1) a materialidade do culto em suas continuidades e rupturas com a religião israelita pré-exílica, a partir da análise da cultura material e da análise da literatura bíblica de quatro objetos cúlticos centrais da OHD, bamah, massebah, Asherá e arca; (2) as práticas redacionais que advogavam a centralização da Torá com inspiração nos demais cultos e concepções do divino no Antigo Israel, especialmente observada na análise exegética do Sl 19, como um dos principais Salmos da Torá que teriam sido produzidos no período para promulgar a nova prática; e (3) a editoração dos diversos textos canônicos que teriam sido retroprojeções legitimadores da visão posterior centralizadora da Torá, através da criação de uma tipologia da materialidade dos textos e da Torá advinda da análise exegética de diversos textos. Com tal panorama, sob pesquisa exegética de orientação histórico-crítica, é proposto um modelo de quatro instâncias de construção do aniconismo pós-exílico, centralizado na Torá e atingindo as diferentes camadas da religião judaíta.

RESUMÉ V ANGLICKÉM JAZYCE Since the 1980s, a revival of religious traditions, whose continuity was disrupted considerably in the Soviet-era Russia, has been in motion in the entire area of Siberia and Central Asia, among the so called 'rooted nations'. While major religious groups, such as buddhism and islam, could successfully pick up the threads of their religious traditions thanks to their written resources; religions based mainly on oral transmission are facing the opposite situation, shamanism not being an exception. Intense tension coming from the spirituality of their own ethnic traditions, which spontaneously opened after many years of the Communist secularization, in the case of shamanism hit the barriers of how to adequately re- establish the disrupted traditions (lack of living bearers and experts on their own traditions, initiated and uninitiated shamans, and other ceremony specialists, ignorance of symbolism). The whole process of rebirth, revival or revitalisation of shamanism is entirely consistent with the context of current issues concerning constituent societies, which naturally carries the legacy of Soviet culture. Political and economic changes in the post- Soviet space also enabled the bearers of traditions to become open to a wide range of new influences from abroad. Revitalization...

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Ultimamente tem se disseminado em alguns terreiros umbandistas do Sudeste o culto aos encantados, uma classe originalmente atinente a cultos do Norte e Nordeste. A literatura acadêmica a seu respeito se restringe a estudos antropológicos ou sociológicos. O surgimento da categoria de encantado em outras religiões e lugares, bem como hipóteses sobre este fato, ainda não foram estudados do ponto de vista etnopsicológico. Esta pesquisa objetiva contribuir para sanar esta lacuna. Para esse efeito, realizou-se um levantamento bibliográfico do que tem sido dito a propósito do termo, procurando constâncias entre vários contextos da sua ocorrência e contrastes do seu emprego. Além disso, realizou-se um estudo de caso no Templo de Umbanda Caboclo Flecha de Ouro. Para colher estes dados, utilizou-se o método psicanalítico (atenção flutuante, relação transferencial e contratransferencial) aplicado ao âmbito etnográfico (escuta participante). Deu-se ouvidos as histórias e as narrativas a respeito dos encantados, participou-se dos cultos, realizaram-se entrevistas com médiuns e entidades, utilizou-se diário de campo e observaram-se características do espaço físico e a dinâmica ritual. A análise dos dados foi realizada considerando as características da noção de encantamento que se repetiram e contrastando-as com os resultados do levantamento bibliográfico. A elaboração da encantaria nesse terreiro teve a participação de uma médium que já havia tido contato com os invisíveis da Mina num terreiro que frequentara anteriormente, mas a presença deles é narrada como sendo anterior e atender a um propósito específico neste contexto umbandista. Contribuiu também para a construção da noção de encantamento deste terreiro o estudo tanto da literatura a respeito dos encantados como atinente a tentativa de sistematização doutrinária da umbanda. A análise indica que os encantados surgiram nesse terreiro para desarranjar categorias saturadas de significado, cristalizadas,   ou,   nas   palavras   da   encantada   guia   do   terreiro,   para   bagunçar.   A   introdução   da categoria tem o sentido de restaurar e resguardar a aptidão da umbanda para dar abrigo ao aspecto misterioso do contato com o sagrado e a abertura para o desconhecido e inusitado. Com o surgimento da encantaria, ao que tudo indica, o panteão umbandista passa a ter literalmente infinitas possibilidades de entidades e linhas espirituais, e todas as pré-existentes podem ser ressignificadas, possibilitando a ampliação e a aprofundamento dos sentidos de categorias espirituais potencialmente saturadas de significado. Deste modo, neste contexto, assegura-se a possibilidade de expressar nuances e sutilezas anímicas tanto de vivências individuais como psicossociais. / The cult to the encantaria (enchanted being), originally related to cults in the North and Northeast regions in Brazil, has lately been propagated in some umbandista houses in the Southeast too. Academic literature concerning the theme is usually restricted to anthropological or sociological studies. Manifestations of the encantados category have not already been studied from an ethno-psychological point of view. This research aims to help filling that gap. Thus a bibliographic study concerning the term has been developed in order to find out both similarities in its occurrence and contrasts in its use in different contexts. Templo de Umbanda Caboclo Flexa de Ouro was the locus of a case study. Data collecting was based on the psychoanalytical method (fluctuating attention, transferential and countertransferential relation) applied to the ethnographic field (hearing participation). Besides giving ear to stories and narratives concerning the encantados, the following procedures were also used: cult participation, interviews involving mediums and entities, field journal, observation of physical space and ritual dynamic features. Data analysis was based on the contrast between the enchantment concept characteristics which frequently appeared, and the results obtained by means of bibliographical study. The encantaria manifestation in the studied terreiro occurred through a medium who had already been in contact with Mina invisibles in another house that she once used to frequent. But according to reports, these entities purpose in this umbanda context is specific, and they had already been present formerly. Both literature study concerning the enchanted and the search for umbanda doctrine systematization have contributed to build up the enchantment concept in this terreiro. Analysis has indicated that the enchanted emerged in the place to unsettle highly meaningful established categories or, according to the terreiro enchanted guide, to make disorder. The category introduction carries the meaning of restoring and guarding umbanda capability of giving shelter to the mysterious aspect involved in the contact with the sacred, and of being opened to the unknown and unusual. The encantaria emergence, as evidence shows, not only enables umbanda pantheon to assume literally uncountable entities and spiritual lines, but also to re-signify all pre-existent ones, besides allowing the enlargement and deepening of potentially meaningful spiritual category senses. Finally, the possibility of expressing animic nuances and subtleness of individual and psychosocial liveliness is assured.

Doctor of Philosophy / This study considers the adequacy of explanatory accounts of recruitment to New Religious Movements [NRMs], defined by their doctrinal innovation or importation from another culture, and formed around a charismatic leader. It considers the coercive persuasion paradigm [brainwashing] which assumes no predisposing features of those who become involved in NRMs and a sociological account by Snow Zurcher and Ekland-Olsen (1980) which seeks to redress overly exclusive attention to psychological variables by emphasising the importance of structural variables such as the existence of 'discretionary time' and having a friend involved in the NRM. It is suggested that a psychological focus in explaining movement involvement need not entail a de-emphasis of the relevance of current life circumstances, such as social bonds, and life stress, nor a failure to acknowledge the importance of the group's ideology in lending definition to a person’s felt difficulties. A new model of personal change is proposed, termed the Rites de Passage model, which entails the disruption, transition and reincorporation of a socially sustained sense of identity and suggests conversion can be viewed as an example of re-socialisation. The historical lineage of the model is traced from Van Gennep's (1908) anthropological work to studies of brainwashing in the work of Schein (1957) and Lifton (1961). Since the emphasis is on the profile of a seeker, specific focus is placed on the early phases of this process where disruption occurs in existing coping techniques and social supports as a result of disruptive life events, and consideration is given to other relevant precursors of movement involvement. Lofland and Stark's (1965) model forms the conceptual framework from which literature regarding differences in life stress, social bonds, prior behavioural involvement in NRMs, and prior cognitive spiritual orientation can be addressed. The work of Galanter (1980, 1989), Barker (1981, 1984), Heirich (1977) and Snow and Phillips (1980) provides substantial evidence for the existence of pre-existing differences between affiliates (who make contact with such movements) and nonaffiliates (who do not). In this thesis two facets of differential involvement are addressed: i) why does one individual rather than another become involved ii) with a given genre of movement rather than another? The Rites de Passage model proposed here, which is a modified version of Lofland and Stark's (1965) account of cult conversion, is tested placing NRMs in a comparative context with a secular self-help agency: a therapy group. People with disrupted social identities might seek movement involvement, but what distinguishes whether they seek out a secular or spiritual movement, and if spiritual – what determines the appeal of eastern or western spiritual groups? To explore these questions, four groups of affiliates to three different eastern NRMs are compared to a therapy group, (Richardson and Kilbourne, 1984), two control groups (a student sample, and a sample from the general population) and a western NRM. There are 160 subjects overall, who completed a battery of questionnaires at point of first contact with the movement, to distinguish the precursors for movement involvement from the sequelae. Exceptions to this prospective data collection were the western NRM and the inclusion of a graduate rebirthing group. The latter was deliberately included to facilitate pre-involvement and post-involvement comparisons. The former's adept status was due to the leader's reluctance to burden new members with a three hour test battery. Measures were taken regarding life events and their psychological impact using Henderson, Byrne and Ducan-Jones (1981) recent life events inventory and impact scales using a twelve month time frame. A modified version of the Interview Schedule for Social Interaction (by Henderson et al, 1981) was used to assess the availability and adequacy of acquaintance-level and intimate bonds in the recent past. Mental health was assessed using Galanter's (1980) General Wellbeing Scale and Tellegen's Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (1982). Recollections of early family relations were assessed using Likert scales derived from the detailed comparative study by Ullman (1982) which suppported the psychoanalytic hypothesis regarding troubled early parental relations, suggesting that current life difficulties re-evoked early life problems. Since disruption is seen as a necessary but not sufficient condition for movement involvement (Greil, 1977) the therapy and eastern groups were not expected to differ from each on the disruption and loneliness measures, and they did not differ. They were expected to have experienced more disruption in greater isolation than the control groups and those already belonging to a spiritual group – namely the western NRM. The therapy and eastern NRM groups did differ from the others in these respects. The value-added form of the model merely specifies that a substrate of stress and disruption suffered in relative isolation and loneliness will increase the probability that some for of social agency will be sought. Disruption experienced in relative loneliness is the first component of differential recruitment to movement involvement, or ‘differential openness’ as it is termed here. So the brainwashing model does not hold as there are differences between those drawn to movements compared to control groups. Do personality differences contribute to which movement genre appeals? A strikingly different personality profile emerged of those drawn to eastern NRMs. Differences were predicted and found between the eastern groups on the one hand and therapy group, control groups and western group on the other, when personality variables were considered. Relevant features of the profile included: a lack of traditionalism, a challenging attitude to conventional authority (assessed by Ray's (1971) balanced F scale) and absorption - a tendency to experience perceptual phenomena indicative of an absorptive or mystical tendency (Tellegen's MPQ was used to assess this personality feature). The eastern groups have a personality profile of being: unconventional, somewhat impulsive and highly absorptive in perceptual style. This profile distinguished them from all other groups. When the additional feature of the model was considered the profile of a potential seeker was more strongly delineated: the consonance between an individual’s intensity and orientation of spiritual beliefs and the orientation of movement ideology was highly influential. This was assessed by a spiritual orientation scale [the SOS] developed by the author across three pilot studies using Coombs Unfolding Technique (Coombs, 1964) to produce a metric ordinal scale which assesses general spiritual beliefs (which underlie any spiritual worldview), eastern and western spiritual beliefs. A major finding of the study was that a markedly distinctive feature of those drawn to NRMs is a spiritual orientation consonant with that of the movement approached. The SOS revealed a strongly demarcated pre-existing eastern spiritual orientation in those drawn to make contact with Eastern NRMs, which set them apart significantly from all other groups. The Western NRM, (already members of their group) had a western spiritual orientation, to the exclusion of an eastern orientation, while the eastern groups were more eclectic. Both eastern and western NRMs were spiritually more intense on the general spiritual items of the SOS, suggesting these items are central to any spiritual worldview. All of the major predictions of the Rites de Passage model were supported. The model provides a welcome link between a sociological and psychological focus on movement involvement. The systematic differences between affiliates and non-affiliates of NRMs at point of first contact, suggest (contra contemporary brainwashing models, though not the sophisticated models of Schein and Lifton) that recruitment is unlikely to be completely due to NRM design: the results suggest participants are likely to be interested and consenting. In summary, it is shown that those drawn to New Religious Movements of an eastern kind are indeed non-traditional, have a high incidence of recent life events and suffer a sense of community isolation, and loneliness which are considered as factors which might lead a person to modify an unfulfilling lifestyle. A portrait of a seeker is lightly (sketched against a background of this dissatisfaction) which includes personality variables like an impulsive, present-oriented pleasure/pain regulatory style, being high on absorption -a mystical perceptual style, and having both an intensity and a congruence of spiritual orientation with that of the ideology of the movement approached. These are considered potential influences on the genre of movement contacted, and are suggested as explanatory of the second facet of differential openness to movement involvement. Disruption sets a person seeking; personality shapes to which appeals s/he is open. The relative privilege of the Western NRM in terms of reduced stress, availability of community and intimate social support suggests that involvement does provide a relief effect, though caution must be exercised in interpreting this difference as these groups differ in membership status and spiritual orientation. The distress and neediness of those contacting movements for the first time is apparent, which suggests that movement contact might be a response to felt dissatisfaction interpreted within a spiritual worldview. An eastern spiritual worldview is a highly significant distinguishing feature of affiliates, and is the final phase of the Rites de Passage Model. Speculative theoretical consideration is offered of the data's implications for a psychoanalytic consideration of movement involvement, in the light of Cushman (1986), Deutsch (1983), Halperin (1983) Doi (1971) and Kohut's (1977). Theory and research is adumbrated concerning differential openness to charismatic appeal.

<p>Ämnet barn i sekter är bristfälligt belyst. För 12 år sedan gjordes en statlig utredning SOU 1998:113 <em>I God tro</em> men sedan dess har inte mycket hänt. Sekter tenderar att isolera sig från samhället vilket gör det svårt att komma åt barnen, både för insatser samt studier. Uppsatsens syfte är att belysa barns situation i sekter samt vilka svårigheter det kan medföra för barnen själva samt dem som ska hjälpa, framför allt socialtjänsten. Studien är kvalitativ med en explorativ deskriptiv ansats. Metoden som användes var intervjuer samt fallstudie av biografisk litteratur. Resultatet visade att barn i sekter utsätts för fysisk och psykisk misshandel samt sexuella övergrepp. Vidare visade resultatet att socialtjänsten sällan hjälper dessa barn. Resultaten analyserades utifrån anknytningsteorin, beteendeteori samt FN:s konvention om barnets rättigheter. Slutsatsen är att 31 av Barnkonventionens artiklar kränks när det gäller barn i sekter. Utifrån anknytningsteori och beteendeteori är de metoder som sekter använder för att kontrollera medlemmarna mycket skadliga för barn, vilket innebär att barn borde skyddas från dessa miljöer. Diskussionen måste lyftas och mer kunskap behövs bland socialarbetare för att hjälpa barn i sekter. Ledordet borde vara att ett barn som far illa är ett barn för mycket.</p> / <p>Children’s situation in cults is an inadequately researched topic. It is 12 years since the governmental investigation SOU 1998:113 <em>I God Tro</em> and little have happened since. Cults tend to isolate themselves from society which leads to difficulties reaching the children, for interventions as well as studies. The purpose of the study is to shed light on the situation of children in cults and the difficulties connected, both for the children themselves and those who attempt to help them with special focus on social services. The study is qualitative with an explorative descriptive approach. The method used was interviews and case studies of biographic literature. The results show that children in cults are victims of physical, psychical and sexual abuse. Furthermore social services seldom help these children. The analysis was based on attachment theory, behavioral theory and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The conclusion is that 31 of the Children’s Convention’s articles are violated in cults. According to attachment theory and behavioral theory the control methods used in cults are harmful to children. Discussion and knowledge among social workers is needed. If one child gets hurt it is one child too many.</p>

La tesi esplora i rapporti del fascismo con i culti a-cattolici e mediorientali, oltre che con alcuni fenomeni politico-spirituali dell’Estremo Oriente. Essa muove da questi interrogativi: quali erano nel fascismo i legami tra il pensiero e l’azione? Quale ruolo era riconosciuto allo “spirito”? Il regime intendeva creare una religione politica? E’ esistito un sincretismo fascista? La fonte principale della tesi è costituita dalle riviste politiche del regime, che consentono di cogliere le finalità strategiche della politica religiosa fascista. L’adozione di questa fonte ha sollevato ulteriori interrogativi: si può individuare nelle riviste una linea di pensiero univoca sulle religioni? Come contribuirono al sincretismo fascista? La tesi si articola in tre capitoli. Il primo è dedicato alla dottrina e alla mistica fascista, il secondo è relativo ai rapporti tra il fascismo e le confessioni a-cattoliche (evangelismo italiano, Chiesa ortodossa del Dodecanneso e Chiese copte eritrea ed etiopica), il terzo indaga invece i contatti con l’ebraismo e l’Islam e include una breve disamina dei rapporti tra il fascismo, il nazionalismo indiano, il gandhismo e il nazionalismo giapponese. La tesi illumina aspetti poco considerati del ventennio, che devono essere indagati per comprendere appieno l’ideologia del regime e la sua azione politica. / The thesis explores the relationship between fascism and the non-catholic and middle-eastern cults, along with some political-spiritual phenomena of the Far East. It expands from these questions: what were the links between thought and action under fascism? What role was the “spirit” given? Did the regime intend to create a political religion? Has a fascist syncretism ever existed? The main source of the thesis is comprised of the political journals, which allow to understand the final goals of fascist religious politics. Its adoption has raised further questions: is it possible to identify a univocal thought on the religions in fascist journals? How did they contribute to the fascist syncretism? The thesis branches into three chapters. The first is dedicated to the fascist doctrine and mysticism, the second is pertaining to the relationship between fascism and the non-catholic denominations (Italian evangelicalism, the Orthodox Church of the Dodecanese, and Eritrean and Ethiopian Coptic Churches), the third investigates the contacts with Hebraism and Islam and includes an examination of the links between fascism, Indian nationalism, Gandhism and Japanese nationalism. The thesis illuminates unknown aspects of fascism, which must be investigated to fully comprehend the ideology of the regime and its political action.

Doctor of Philosophy / This study considers the adequacy of explanatory accounts of recruitment to New Religious Movements [NRMs], defined by their doctrinal innovation or importation from another culture, and formed around a charismatic leader. It considers the coercive persuasion paradigm [brainwashing] which assumes no predisposing features of those who become involved in NRMs and a sociological account by Snow Zurcher and Ekland-Olsen (1980) which seeks to redress overly exclusive attention to psychological variables by emphasising the importance of structural variables such as the existence of 'discretionary time' and having a friend involved in the NRM. It is suggested that a psychological focus in explaining movement involvement need not entail a de-emphasis of the relevance of current life circumstances, such as social bonds, and life stress, nor a failure to acknowledge the importance of the group's ideology in lending definition to a person’s felt difficulties. A new model of personal change is proposed, termed the Rites de Passage model, which entails the disruption, transition and reincorporation of a socially sustained sense of identity and suggests conversion can be viewed as an example of re-socialisation. The historical lineage of the model is traced from Van Gennep's (1908) anthropological work to studies of brainwashing in the work of Schein (1957) and Lifton (1961). Since the emphasis is on the profile of a seeker, specific focus is placed on the early phases of this process where disruption occurs in existing coping techniques and social supports as a result of disruptive life events, and consideration is given to other relevant precursors of movement involvement. Lofland and Stark's (1965) model forms the conceptual framework from which literature regarding differences in life stress, social bonds, prior behavioural involvement in NRMs, and prior cognitive spiritual orientation can be addressed. The work of Galanter (1980, 1989), Barker (1981, 1984), Heirich (1977) and Snow and Phillips (1980) provides substantial evidence for the existence of pre-existing differences between affiliates (who make contact with such movements) and nonaffiliates (who do not). In this thesis two facets of differential involvement are addressed: i) why does one individual rather than another become involved ii) with a given genre of movement rather than another? The Rites de Passage model proposed here, which is a modified version of Lofland and Stark's (1965) account of cult conversion, is tested placing NRMs in a comparative context with a secular self-help agency: a therapy group. People with disrupted social identities might seek movement involvement, but what distinguishes whether they seek out a secular or spiritual movement, and if spiritual – what determines the appeal of eastern or western spiritual groups? To explore these questions, four groups of affiliates to three different eastern NRMs are compared to a therapy group, (Richardson and Kilbourne, 1984), two control groups (a student sample, and a sample from the general population) and a western NRM. There are 160 subjects overall, who completed a battery of questionnaires at point of first contact with the movement, to distinguish the precursors for movement involvement from the sequelae. Exceptions to this prospective data collection were the western NRM and the inclusion of a graduate rebirthing group. The latter was deliberately included to facilitate pre-involvement and post-involvement comparisons. The former's adept status was due to the leader's reluctance to burden new members with a three hour test battery. Measures were taken regarding life events and their psychological impact using Henderson, Byrne and Ducan-Jones (1981) recent life events inventory and impact scales using a twelve month time frame. A modified version of the Interview Schedule for Social Interaction (by Henderson et al, 1981) was used to assess the availability and adequacy of acquaintance-level and intimate bonds in the recent past. Mental health was assessed using Galanter's (1980) General Wellbeing Scale and Tellegen's Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (1982). Recollections of early family relations were assessed using Likert scales derived from the detailed comparative study by Ullman (1982) which suppported the psychoanalytic hypothesis regarding troubled early parental relations, suggesting that current life difficulties re-evoked early life problems. Since disruption is seen as a necessary but not sufficient condition for movement involvement (Greil, 1977) the therapy and eastern groups were not expected to differ from each on the disruption and loneliness measures, and they did not differ. They were expected to have experienced more disruption in greater isolation than the control groups and those already belonging to a spiritual group – namely the western NRM. The therapy and eastern NRM groups did differ from the others in these respects. The value-added form of the model merely specifies that a substrate of stress and disruption suffered in relative isolation and loneliness will increase the probability that some for of social agency will be sought. Disruption experienced in relative loneliness is the first component of differential recruitment to movement involvement, or ‘differential openness’ as it is termed here. So the brainwashing model does not hold as there are differences between those drawn to movements compared to control groups. Do personality differences contribute to which movement genre appeals? A strikingly different personality profile emerged of those drawn to eastern NRMs. Differences were predicted and found between the eastern groups on the one hand and therapy group, control groups and western group on the other, when personality variables were considered. Relevant features of the profile included: a lack of traditionalism, a challenging attitude to conventional authority (assessed by Ray's (1971) balanced F scale) and absorption - a tendency to experience perceptual phenomena indicative of an absorptive or mystical tendency (Tellegen's MPQ was used to assess this personality feature). The eastern groups have a personality profile of being: unconventional, somewhat impulsive and highly absorptive in perceptual style. This profile distinguished them from all other groups. When the additional feature of the model was considered the profile of a potential seeker was more strongly delineated: the consonance between an individual’s intensity and orientation of spiritual beliefs and the orientation of movement ideology was highly influential. This was assessed by a spiritual orientation scale [the SOS] developed by the author across three pilot studies using Coombs Unfolding Technique (Coombs, 1964) to produce a metric ordinal scale which assesses general spiritual beliefs (which underlie any spiritual worldview), eastern and western spiritual beliefs. A major finding of the study was that a markedly distinctive feature of those drawn to NRMs is a spiritual orientation consonant with that of the movement approached. The SOS revealed a strongly demarcated pre-existing eastern spiritual orientation in those drawn to make contact with Eastern NRMs, which set them apart significantly from all other groups. The Western NRM, (already members of their group) had a western spiritual orientation, to the exclusion of an eastern orientation, while the eastern groups were more eclectic. Both eastern and western NRMs were spiritually more intense on the general spiritual items of the SOS, suggesting these items are central to any spiritual worldview. All of the major predictions of the Rites de Passage model were supported. The model provides a welcome link between a sociological and psychological focus on movement involvement. The systematic differences between affiliates and non-affiliates of NRMs at point of first contact, suggest (contra contemporary brainwashing models, though not the sophisticated models of Schein and Lifton) that recruitment is unlikely to be completely due to NRM design: the results suggest participants are likely to be interested and consenting. In summary, it is shown that those drawn to New Religious Movements of an eastern kind are indeed non-traditional, have a high incidence of recent life events and suffer a sense of community isolation, and loneliness which are considered as factors which might lead a person to modify an unfulfilling lifestyle. A portrait of a seeker is lightly (sketched against a background of this dissatisfaction) which includes personality variables like an impulsive, present-oriented pleasure/pain regulatory style, being high on absorption -a mystical perceptual style, and having both an intensity and a congruence of spiritual orientation with that of the ideology of the movement approached. These are considered potential influences on the genre of movement contacted, and are suggested as explanatory of the second facet of differential openness to movement involvement. Disruption sets a person seeking; personality shapes to which appeals s/he is open. The relative privilege of the Western NRM in terms of reduced stress, availability of community and intimate social support suggests that involvement does provide a relief effect, though caution must be exercised in interpreting this difference as these groups differ in membership status and spiritual orientation. The distress and neediness of those contacting movements for the first time is apparent, which suggests that movement contact might be a response to felt dissatisfaction interpreted within a spiritual worldview. An eastern spiritual worldview is a highly significant distinguishing feature of affiliates, and is the final phase of the Rites de Passage Model. Speculative theoretical consideration is offered of the data's implications for a psychoanalytic consideration of movement involvement, in the light of Cushman (1986), Deutsch (1983), Halperin (1983) Doi (1971) and Kohut's (1977). Theory and research is adumbrated concerning differential openness to charismatic appeal.

Thesis (doctoral)--Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philipines, 1995. / Title from PDF title screen (viewed Oct. 7, 2004).

Le Roussillon est un espace entre mer et montagne situé à la croisée des populations de l’extrême sud de la Gaule et du nord-est de l’Ibérie. Une approche globale du territoire et des dynamiques de peuplement est réalisée afin d’appréhender l’évolution, la diversité spatiale et qualitative des vestiges archéologiques dans le temps. Les données archéologiques disponibles sont revisitées à travers de nouvelles recherches de terrain (prospections, fouilles) afin de proposer une synthèse des connaissances. Ces données apportent des informations sur l’occupation et l’exploitation des ressources disponibles dans les espaces littoraux et dans les massifs pyrénéens. À l'aide des systèmes d'information géographique (base de données, SIG), l’analyse est menée en recherchant les articulations entre les ressources naturelles, les territoires d’habitats et les zones d’échanges économiques. Ces dynamiques sont confrontées à la réception et à la diffusion des céramiques d’importations issues des échanges avec le monde méditerranéen. Les flux commerciaux résultant d’études céramiques inédites permettent d’appréhender dans le temps les diversités culturelles et commerciales des populations et la nature des contacts de cultures. Les échanges et les relations entre Grecs, Ibères (principalement) et populations locales sont développés à travers 6 études de cas menées sur les agglomérations littorales (Ruscino, Elne), portuaires (Collioure) et d’arrière-pays (Teixonères, Escatiro). Enfin, l’étude d’un lieu de culte gréco-romain (la Fajouse) permet d’expérimenter une archéologie des cultes afin d’aborder les comportements rituels, le paysage religieux et humain d’un espace montagnard situé au cœur des circulations terrestres entre la Gaule et l’Ibérie. / The Roussillon is a place located between mountains and sea, at the crossroad of the extreme south Gaule and North-East Iberia. A global approach of this territory and its population dynamics is realized in this work to understand the evolution and the spatial and qualitative repartition of archaeological remains through the centuries. The available Archaeological data has been studied again through to the latest field investigation data (obtained by prospection and excavation) to present a report of this knowledge. This data brings information about people occupation and the use of available resources in coastal and mountain areas. Thanks to the geographical information system, the data analysis shows the connections between natural resources, occupied spaces and economical exchange areas. These dynamics are confronted with the reception and the diffusion of imported ceramics coming from the Mediterranean trade. Commercial flows resulting from the new ceramic studies allow to understand, during this period, the population’s commercial and cultural diversities and how were their relationships with other populations. Exchanges and relationships between Greek, Iberian and local populations are developed through 6 case studies on coastal (Ruscino, Elne), port (Collioure) and hinterland cities (Teixonères, Escatiro). Finally, the study of a Greco-Roman cult place (la Fajouse) gives the opportunity to experiment an archaeology of cults in order to approach ritual behaviors as well as human and religious landscape of a mountain area located at the crossroad of Gaul and Iberia axes.